Post Office 'pens £180m deal to keep Fujitsu's Horizon system in place for another FIVE YEARS'...

READ:The Post Office has reportedly penned a £180million deal to keep the faulty Horizon system in place for another five years.

Richard Trinder, who manages the campaign group Voice of the Postmaster - which supports victims of the Horizon scandal - said: 'We want the new system to be the right one when it does come in, so we understand that there needs to be a new system. But it was reported this week that the Post Office has pushed this deadline back to 2030. It also asked for £1billion of additional public money from the Treasury as it finds its difficult to create a sufficient in-house system.

Perjury and perverting the course of justice have been been identified as possible offences in a scandal which resulted in more than 900 Post Office operators being prosecuted for theft, fraud and false accounting between 1999 and 2015 due to the faulty Horizon software wrongly making it look as though money was missing from their branches.

This month, former Post Office boss Paula Vennells wept while giving evidence at the Horizon inquiry after insisting that she 'loved' the company.

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